WAND
Chapters: Northern Indiana Slices the Pie
WAND
of Northern Indiana: PERDUE EXTENSION LEADERS HAVE
THEIR SLICE OF THE FEDERAL BUDGET AND EAT IT, TOO.
Seeking
a way to help 33 Perdue Extension leaders from 8 counties
in northern Indiana digest facts about the federal
budget, Doloris Cogan came up with a deliciously creative
solution.
At
the beginning of the meeting, she passed around envelopes
numbered from 1 to 8 with descriptions of each Department's
functions tucked inside. At the end of the meeting
she announced that she was going to leave them with
a description of the federal budget that they wouldn't
soon forget -- and that's when she brought out the
pumpkin pies!
"I
took one pumpkin pie to illustrate the entire $2.2
trillion federal budget...with 34% for the discretionary
budget and the rest for Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid,
interest on the debt, etc. Then I took another pumpkin
pie that I had cut for the discretionary budget and
began to dish the pieces out. A colleague delivered
them one by one to those who had the envelopes, with
the Pentagon (54%) coming last. Each read what he
or she had to administer with the little bit of money
allowed. Of course, the one holding National Defense
got more than half the pie, delivered right in the
pie pan."
And
with Thanksgiving just around the corner, they'll
have other pies and opportunities to remind them of
what they learned!
Northern Indiana WAND Info: Karen Jacob, lovekaren55@msn.com
